Congress’s Telangana Rally: Sonia lists out six guarantees, Rahul says BRS is ‘BJP Rishtedar Samithi’

Appealing to the people to support the Congress party, she also flagged off teams to all the 119 Assembly constituencies to start campaigning for the party. “Under Mahalakshmi, financial assistance of Rs 2,500 per month will be given to women; LPG cylinders will be provided at Rs 500 to eligible beneficiaries, and women will be allowed free travel in buses across the state,” she said, explaining some of the guarantees.

“I, along with my colleagues, had the opportunity to be a part of the birth of this great state, Telangana. Now, it is our duty to elevate the state to new heights,” she said.

“It is my dream to see a Congress government in Telangana that will work for all sections of the society. Are you going to support us?,” she said at the rally.

Thousands of people from across Telangana attended the public meeting. Other guarantees are:  Rs 15,000 per acre to every farmer every season on the line of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government’s  Rythu Bandhu scheme;  Rs 12,000 each to every tenant farmer and farm labourer; Rs 10 lakh medical insurance to all.

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that all the six guarantees will be implemented the day the party comes to power in Telangana. Other promises include Rs 5 lakh grant to the homeless under Indiramma Housing poor, and 250 sq yard residential plots for all those who participated in the Telangana movement.

He also dubbed the BRS as “BJP Rishtedar Samithi” and said while opposition leaders were being attacked by government agencies there were no cases against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and AIMIM leaders because Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers them his own.

“They call each other separate parties but they are working together in collusion. I have seen BRS MPs in Lok Sabha. When BJP needed them, their (BRS) people supported it,” he said and cited the instances of BRS “support” to the BJP on farm laws, GST, and President and Vice President polls.

(With PTI inputs)